When Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi fingered Goldman Sachs as the main culprit…
Much went awry in the handling of these two articles: a new freelancer was not properly vetted; e-mail in which she disclosed her personal relationship was overlooked; an editor wanted to accommodate a respected staff member even though she knew his essay was…
by Kia Matthews
Wait, the vaguely Asian-looking werewolf kid from that gay vampire movie is hosting Saturday Night Live?, asked the small percentage of America watching TV on…
Tom Ford, whose movie A Single Man made $216,328 this weekend in its very limited release, makes, as we have noted, excruciatingly expensive and gorgeous clothes for men. (Women’s clothes coming soon-as soon as he raises $50 million to do the line, which, oh…
by Erica Sackin
Brooklyn had about 12 craft fairs this weekend, with four or five taking place in Williamsburg-Greenpoint alone. There was the 3rd Ward Fair in Williamsburg, and the Hearts and Crafts Affair at Cafe…
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs sent out their market research advisory on the restaurant industry in the Americas, with “five themes that will dictate restaurant stock performance in 2010.” The outlook? SUNNY! There will be a “high…
An exciting and phenomenally unintelligible press release went out this morning from Burson-Marsteller, the challenged PR and lobbying outfit that represented Blackwater, Colombia…
Good news for those of you who are still getting carded: “People who look young for their age enjoy a longer life than those who look older than their years, according to a study of twins.” The study focused on “perceived age,” and over a seven-year period…
And now to Wales: “Police hiding in a car with a disabled boy and his parents as they made the morning school run saw a man mimicking the child, a court has heard…. They saw Steven Beavan, 35, of Rhyl, Denbighshire, tap his head, adopt a limp and make…
Scientists in Queensland, Australia, stuck Band-Aids on 65 volunteers and ripped them off at varying speeds to discover how ouchy they felt. The results: It is, in fact, more painful to rip a Band-Aid off slowly than to give it one quick yank. But…
“Let’s acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them…. Crash as best picture? What the fuck.” -The wonderful New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis.
Ladies! You are doing it wrong, reports a lady who has been working as a man, on the Internet, for the last three years: “Taking a man’s name opened up a new world. It helped me earn double and triple the income of…
Here’s an ad that appeared in today’s Financial Times. The copy, in part: “The gulf…
Kinda cool: “Octopuses have been observed carrying coconut shells in what researchers claim is the first recorded example of tool use in invertebrates.”
Here Lies Love, the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim collaboration “about Imelda Marcos and Estrella Cumpas, the woman who raised her,” hits shelves on February 23. Guest vocalists include Santigold, Natalie Merchant, Steve Earle, Tori Amos, and Cyndi Lauper.
The Chicago Tribune’s list of hangover remedies (water, wheatgrass, some other stuff) probably doesn’t contain anything you haven’t heard before, but the suggestion of “tomato juice with a shot of lime juice and sugar” intrigues: I’ve been drinking a glass of V8 every morning for the last month or so…
Why is Joe Lieberman such a miserable prick? Maybe, in part, he’s just not that bright: “I suspect that Lieberman is the beneficiary, or possibly the victim, of a cultural stereotype that Jews are smart and good with numbers. Trust me, it’s not true.”
Two good ones for all you theater people out there: New York talks to Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury about their collaborations over the years, while the New Yorker chats up Christopher Plummer, who says this about living in a hotel: “It’s nice to have the bed done for you. That signals another…
After being assaulted this weekend by a mentally disturbed man who struck him with a statuette of Milan’s cathedral, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will remain in the hospital until at least Tuesday. The attack on…
More Molly Ivins news: Kathleen Turner will star in “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins,” a one-woman show premiering in Philadelphia this spring. I could totally see this working.
This weekend Houston became the largest city in the United States to elect an openly gay mayor. City controller Annise Parker will be inaugurated next month. She has her work cut out for her. Still, congratulations.
Hot with the kids now: Pot, pain pills, and ADD drugs. Not so hot: Cigarettes, meth, and binge drinking. It breaks my heart to see this new generation turn its back on the classics. Why, when I was their age we used to binge drink uphill both ways etc.
I think it is well past time that I boned up on Russian culture.
The New York Post’s Andrea Peyser takes to the paper today to complain that former governor Eliot Spitzer-”a pathological whoremaster”-may indeed launch a successful return to office. (Spitzer is said to be considering a run for comptroller.) Among the many reasons Peyser…
